Controversial Cerebus creator Dave Sim

Controversial Cerebus creator Dave Sim

There’s a fascinating inteview in the AV Club of this week’s Onion with Dave Sim, the controversial creator of Cerebus, a comic book that he has been self-publishing for the past 25 years. What started out as a parody of Conan the Barbarian grew into long, intricate storylines involving a character who, as The Onion interview states, is “a foul-tempered anthropomorphic aardvark, who has been a mercenary warrior, a politician, a religious leader and scholar, a revolutionary, a professional sports player, a bartender, and a comic-book fanboy, among many other roles.”

Sim would probably make an amazing subject for a documentary as he went from being known for creating a brilliant series of graphic novels to what some have deemed a mysognist with some very extreme views on affirmative action, a woman’s role in our society, and politics. He used the later issues of the comic to write long essays on his extreme anti-feminist and anti-leftist views. Andrew Rilstone’s website has a Dave Watch where he covers the comic, the man, and has some interesting commentary on Dave’s controversial essays.